Category Archives: project management

Service Pack 10 released

Posted on 12 June 2018 by Michael Scholand

Dear Transiteers, the long awaited Service Pack 10 for your favourite translation memory tool has finally been released. Read our blog post to see what is new: https://goo.gl/eCRve6.

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What is a translation segment?

Posted on 17 April 2018 by Michael Scholand

If you want to know what translation segments have to do with piggy banks, then read on cause this is Pro content in the disguise of a beginner’s blog post. If you know how segmentation works and are able to … Continue reading →

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Transit NXT: from CAT tool to ATA

Posted on 27 February 2018 by Michael Scholand

Our latest blog post presents a new feature in Transit NXT’s translation editor that has gone almost unnoticed. As insignificant as it may seem, it converts Transit into an Advanced Translation Assistant as it helps you to stay on track. … Continue reading →

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Short cuts Nº 19: Excluding hidden text from being imported into Transit

Posted on 29 August 2014 by livinginastrangecountry

Do you often have huge Excel or Power Point files in which not everything needs to be translated? For example, consider that you have an Excel file with a lot of hidden columns and you are required to translate only the … Continue reading →

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STAR Campus – Software for anywhere

Posted on 11 August 2014 by Michael Scholand

How can I use Transit to localize software? Traditionally, CATs (computer assisted translation tools) were used for the translation of documentation, i.e. content created with word-processing or DTP applications. For the translation of software strings, other tools were developed, the … Continue reading →

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Transit NXT and FrameMaker

Posted on 28 May 2014 by Michael Scholand

There’s life in the old dogs yet Adobe FrameMaker is a software application for creating, managing and publishing large and complex technical publications, including structured documents. First released in 1986, there have been rumours repeatedly circulated that FrameMaker development would … Continue reading →

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Short Cuts – Nº 17: View Project Package and Translation Package Files

Posted on 24 April 2014 by Michael Scholand

Both Transit’s Project Package Files (PPF) and Translation Package Files (TPF) are in compressed format and their content can be viewed with compression utilities like Winzip, WinRAR or 7-Zip. That’s handy if you want to have a look into the … Continue reading →

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STAR Campus – Unpack and get going

Posted on 16 April 2014 by Michael Scholand

What is included in my project package? To ensure that translators can work well and efficiently, they require as much information as possible: Reference material for fuzzy matches, dictionaries with terminology, PDF files of the original document, etc. For this, … Continue reading →

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Indesign CC files in Transit NXT

Posted on 4 April 2014 by Michael Scholand

With the latest update for Service Pack 7, you can translate InDesign CC files in Transit NXT. For data exchange with Transit, new InDesign Gate plug-ins are available for InDesign CC (Mac and Windows). The new InDesign Gate plug-ins and … Continue reading →

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Open at heart – Terminology exchange formats in TermStar NXT

Posted on 26 February 2014 by Muffadal Khorakiwala

Export TermStar dictionaries into different formats TermStar, the terminology management component of Transit NXT, is extremely flexible and open when it comes to importing or exporting terminology. It supports multiple exchange formats and simplifies the import / export routines as … Continue reading →

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